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Description: | Copper alloy brooch fragment, Rosette type. Missing lower bow, foot and pin, spring, damaged spring cover; exposed areas of the front have been abraded down to yellow metal, and the areas of green corrosion surviving are quite fragile. The spring cover is squared, forming an open box shape with the end flap folded forward to enclose c. 4mm - no trace of original contents which Hawkes and Hull describe as a hinge on this type (1947, 316 no.79) whereas Hattatt refers to a spring (1987, 53 no.791). The arched upper bow has a pair of grooves across the top, then a large rounded centre rib; above the junction with the centre disc the upper face of the bow has a step inwards, below which the centre decoration is a triple groove (now indistinct). The top of the circular disc joins the underside of the spring cover; it is broken above the junction with the lower bow and is decorated with three strong concentric ribs. Surviving length 36mm, width 22mm. Apart from the unusual step in the upper bow this is similar to Hawkes and Hull no.79, their type X Class C ii, a relatively uncommon form of the Rosette.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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